Word: irelanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...woman, 23, the press is interested. When, in 1914, the man happened to be scandalously rich old-time Tammany Boss Richard Wellstead Croker the press was convulsed with excitement. In 1901 Tammany had been soundly beaten by Fusion Candidate Seth Low. Boss Croker had gone back to his native Ireland to buy a huge estate in County Dublin with the proceeds of years of "honest Tammany graft." He then launched on a racing career, which reached its peak when bluff Edward VII refused to ask him to a Derby dinner when Croker's horse Orby won the 1907 Derby...
While waiting for the White House to reply, Mr. and Mrs. Chamberlain, traveling incognito as "Mr. and Mrs. Ireland" to escape the curiosity of British crowds, journeyed to the annual Conservative Party Conference at Scarborough. There Government & Party Leader Chamberlain, in the course of delivering a speech which stressed British Rearmament and was wildly cheered, said: "Hitherto it has been assumed that the United States of America -the most powerful country in the world -would remain content with a frankly isolationist policy. But President Roosevelt has seen that if what he calls an epidemic of world lawlessness is allowed...
When, in Ulysses, James Joyce succeeded in crowding pre-War Dublin piecemeal through the eye of a verbal needle, he was hailed as the largest literary giant Ireland had ever produced. Seeing a giant, however, is not necessarily believing in him: and Ulysses' gigantic size seemed, to some critics and many lay readers, to conceal a wizened point of view. Readers who are cajoled into the belief that all is big in Brobdignag will find Giant Joyce's Collected Poems an eye opener. For not only are his poems measly in number (50), they seem small potatoes...
...five years that ended in 1851 was close upon a million. The two most important results were: a desperate stiffening of the rebelliousness already inflamed by Wolfe Tone. Emmet, O'Connell; a tide of emigration, chiefly to the U. S., that in the next 50 years cut Ireland's population of 8,000,000 in half...
Laid in the thumb-shaped spur of rocky land that juts down from the county of Mayo along the west coast of Ireland, and with this period as background, Famine just fails of being the epic of struggle and suffering its author unquestionably designed it to be. But for readers strong-stomached enough to endure an unrelenting account of human misery. Famine is a powerful and at times wildly moving novel...